Book History, Education, Learning & Printing

SADOLETO, Jacopo. De liberis recte instituendis, liber.
(Colophon:) Venice, Giovanni Antonio Nicolini da Sabbio & fratres for Melchiorre Sessa, July 1533. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). With Sessa's woodcut device of a cat with a mouse on the title-page. Modern overlapping vellum. 52, [1 blank] ll. Full description

[SAINCTOT, Nicolas II de]. [Memoires de Mr. de Sainctot].
[Paris?, ca. 1710].
With: (2) [AVICE, Henry]. La pompeuse et magnifique ceremonie du sacre du roy Louis XIV.
Paris, Imprimerie d'Edme Martin, 1655. 2 works, with the first in 2 parts, in 2 volumes. Folio (44 x 30 cm). With 3 drawings of layouts and seating plans of the king's audience room, and 24 engravings of ambassadors and court scenes. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the French royal coat-of-arms on the front and back, fleurs-de-lis in the corners and on the spine, the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt and marbled edges, marbled endpapers. 450, [1 blank]; [6], "344" [= 407], [5 blank]; [1], [1 blank], [8], [7], [5 blank] pp. Full description

SAINT-AUBIN, Augustin de. C'est-ici les différens jeux de petits polissons de Paris.
Paris, 1770. 4to (ca. 24.5 x 18.5 cm). A series of 6 unnumbered engraved prints (ca. 17 x 22 cm) representing children playing games. Each print is mounted on a paper leaf in a passe-partout (30 x 24 cm). Full description

SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER (subject). Prodigioso milagre de S. Francisco Xavier. Saude restituida a Alexandre Philipuccio da Companhia de Jesu: em doze de Março de 1658.
Lisbon, Henrique Valente de Oliveira, 1659. Small 4to. With a decorated woodcut initial and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary limp vellum, with a later shelfmark label mounted on the front. 20 pp. Full description

[SAINT HELENA - ALMANAC]. The Saint Helena almanac and annual register for the year of our lord 1850, … Containing a detailed account of the public departments and local institutions.
Saint Helena, George Gibb, Government office, [1849]. 8vo. With title-page printed in orange, with the woodcut royal arms of the United Kingdom. Later black half morocco, gold-tooled spine. [126], 37, [3] pp.; plus [3], [1 blank] pp. advertisements Full description

[SALES CATALOGUE - DE VERHULST COLLECTION]. Catalogue d'une riche et precieuse collection de tableaux des meilleurs & plus célébres maîtres des ecoles d'Italie, des Pays-Bas & de France, qui composent le cabinet de Feu Messire Gabriel-François-Joseph de Verhulst, dont les héritiers proposent l'acquisition en total & en masse.
Brussels, Imprimerie d'Antoine d'Ours, 1779.
With: (2) [SALES CATALOGUE - DE VERHULST COLLECTION]. Catalogue d'une belle collection de desseins, estampes et livres delaissés par Feu Le Chevalier De Verhulst, dont la vente se fera (en argent de change) à sa mortuaire, ... immediatement après celle des tableaux.
Brussels, chez Antoine d'Ours, [1779]. Ad 1: 4to. Ad 2: 12mo. With a full-page engraved portrait of De Verhulst, a woodcut vignette on the title page, a woodcut headpiece, and 2 woodcut tailpieces. Ad 1: Contemporary marbled calf, blue sprinkled edges. Ad 2: Contemporary wrappers, side stitched through two holes. [4], 56, [10]; 31, [1] pp. Full description

SALLANDER, Hans. Bibliotheca Walleriana the books illustrating the history of medicine and science collected by Dr. Erik Waller and bequeathed to the library of the Royal University of Uppsala.
Stockholm, Almquist & Wiksell, 1955. 2 volumes. With 55 plates. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Full description

SALLE, Jean Baptiste de la. Les règles de la bien-seance et de la civilité Chretienne. Divisées en deux parties. Pour l'instruction de la jeunesse.
Rouen, François Oursel, 1729. 8vo. With ornamental woodcut on title-page and some woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Main text in civilité type. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine with red label, red sprinkled edges. [16], 240 pp. Full description

SALVÁ Y MALLEN, Pedro. Catálago de la biblioteca de Salvá.
"Valencia, Ferrer de Orga, 1782" (=Barcelona, Porter Libros, 1963). 2 volumes. 4to. Many illustrations in text. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. XXXII, 706, 1, [1 blank]; [8], 900 pp. Full description

SAN JUAN DEL PUERTO, Francisco de Jesús María de. Mission historial de Marruecos, en que se trata de los martirios, persecuciones, y trabajos, que han padecido los missionarios, y frutos que han cogido las missiones, que han cogido las missiones, que desde sus principios tuvo la Orden Seraphica en el Imperio de Marruecos, y continùa La Provincia de San Diego de Franciscos descalços de Andalucia en el mismo Imperio.
Sevilla, Francisco Garay, 1708. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Joannes Carolus Allet in Rome after Pietro de Pietri (with an allegorical martyrdom scene flanked by portraits of 12 martyrs and with 2 emblems), title printed in red and black in a border built up from cast fleurons, woodcut tailpieces and initials, further decorations built up from cast fleurons. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [44], 829, [19] pp. Full description